| RECENT PUBLICATIONS |
This section is now produced by Oliver Harris with contributions from Sally Badham, Paul Cockerham, Philip Lankester, Sophie Oosterwijk, Andrew Sargent and others. We all wish to thank Philip Lankester who produced the Recent Publications for any years but has now handed over to Oliver.
Originally the older Recent Publications was removed from the website, for the reasons of limited space, when a new edition arrived. Then when we obtained more web space this section merely tagged the latest Recent Publications onto the end of the previous Recent Publications so that this section became not only increasingly lengthy but effectively upside down. This has now been revised: this section will contain only the current Recent Publications; all the previous material has been moved elsewhere but may be accessed here. The current Latest Publications will eventually be tagged onto this list as before when a new edition is received.
I hope the long and unweildly list will be of interest to some and hopefully one day it will be edited.
Oliver Harris, with contributions from Sally Badham, Mark Downing, Ben Elliott and Andrew Sargent.
Suggestions for inclusion may be sent to OliverDHarris@netscape.net.
Douglas Arden, 2012, ‘The Spratton livery
collar of SS: the earliest example of a prime Lancastrian honour’,
Northamptonshire Past & Present, 65, 7-18
A discussion of the tomb with a fine military alabaster effigy at
Spratton, Northants., wearing a Lancastrian livery collar of SS,
conventionally attributed to Sir John Swinford (d. 1370). The author
tentatively proposes, largely on heraldic grounds, that it may
actually commemorate Sir John’s father-in-law, Sir Thomas Aderne;
but argues that it is unlikely to have been commissioned before
1385. The collar is still probably the earliest surviving physical
representation of a collar of SS.
Sally Badham & Sophie Oosterwijk,
2012, ‘The tomb monument of Katherine, daughter of Henry III and
Eleanor of Provence (1253-7)’, Antiquaries J, 92,
169-96
An investigation into the costly but lost monument in Westminster
Abbey to Katherine, third daughter of Henry III, who died in her
fourth year, and was commemorated by a bejewelled and silver-gilt
effigy. Probably the earliest recorded memorial to a child in
England, it may have formed part of Henry’s response to the
commemorative programme instigated by his brother-in-law, Louis IX
of France.
Paul Barker, 2012, ‘Parish church treasures: the knight traveller’,
Country Life, 206.47 (21st Nov 2012), 38
Discusses and illustrates
the monument at Condover, Shropshire, to Sir Thomas
Cholmondeley-Owen, a prolific traveller who died in Italy in 1864.
The kneeling alabaster figure, inspired by 17th-century models and
completed in 1867, was the first sculptural commission of G F Watts.
Jerome Bertram, 2012, ‘Embellishment and restoration: the
Barttelots and their brasses at Stopham, Sussex’, Trans Monumental
Brass Soc, 18.4, 334-62
A study of the lengthy sequence of brasses
at Stopham, dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries, commissioned
by members of the Barttelot family. Of particular interest are the
embellishments and repairs, most executed by Edward Marshall between
1630 and 1644.
Paul Binski & Elizabeth A New (eds), 2012, Patrons
and Professionals in the Middle Ages. Harlaxton Medieval Studies 22
(Shaun Tyas: Donington. xvi+430pp; 116 illus, mainly colour; ISBN
978-1-907730-12-2; hbk; £49.50)
The proceedings of the 27th
Harlaxton Medieval Symposium, on patronage and the processes of
artistic commissioning in medieval Europe. Contributions include
Nigel Saul on the interplay between patrons’ expectations and
sculptors’ creativity in the design of tomb monuments, making
particular use of contracts and wills; and T A Heslop on the
alabaster tomb of Sir Edmund Thorpe (d.1418) and his wife Joan
(d.1415) at Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk.
Adam Bowett, 2012, ‘New light
on Diacinto Cawcy and the Barrow monument’, Procs Suffolk Inst of
Archaeol & History, 42.4, 424-33
A study, expanding on one of 2004
by John Blatchly and Geoffrey Fisher, of the scagliola work on three
Suffolk monuments attributed to Diacinto Cawsey, an itinerant
Italian artisan and an associate of the better known Baldassare
Artima. The monuments are those to Sir Thomas Cullum (d.1664) at
Hawstead, erected 1675; to Sir Henry North (d.1671) at Mildenhall;
and to Maurice Barrow at Westhorpe, erected after 1681. A monument
to the first and second Barons Poulett at Hinton St George,
Somerset, may also incorporate work by Artima and/or Cawsey.
Frederick Brock, 2012, Thomas Brock: forgotten sculptor of the
Victoria Memorial (Author House: Bloomington IN [Amazon print on
demand]. Pbk; 187pp; illus; ISBN 978-1-4678-8334-4)
The career of
Thomas Brock, sculptor of the Victoria Memorial in front of
Buckingham Palace. Much of his work was public sculpture.
Clive
Burgess, 2012, ‘Obligations and strategy: managing memory in the
later medieval parish’, Trans Monumental Brass Soc, 18.4, 289-310 An
essay exploring the place of tombs and brasses within the wider
complex of devotional and commemorative apparatus commonly brought
together in late medieval parish churches.
A Cherryson, Z
Crossland & S Tarlow, 2012, A Fine and Private Place: the
archaeology of death and burial in Post-Medieval Britain and Ireland
(Leicester Archaeol. Pbk; 276pp; illus; £32. ISBN 978-0-956-01798-7)
A synthetic and interpretative discussion of the below-ground
archaeology of death and burial, including treatment of the dead,
burial landscapes and changing beliefs. It is supported by a
gazetteer of over 500 excavations.
Juliusz A Chrościcki, Mark
Hengerer & Gérard Sabatier (eds), 2012,
Les funérailles princières
en Europe, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle: 1: Le grand théâtre de la mort
(Centre de recherche du château de Versailles: Versailles. xi+407pp;
16 b/w, colour illus, maps, tables; ISBN 978-2-7351-1426-9; €47)
A
collection of essays on royal funerary rites across Europe in the
early modern period. This volume, the first of a trilogy, is
concerned with ritual and spectacle: volume 2 will consider material
culture, including tombs. In French.
B Connell, A Gray Jones, R
Redfern & D Walker, 2012, A Bio-archaeological Study of Medieval
Burials on the Site of St Mary Spital (MOLA. Hbk; 300pp; illus; £28.
ISBN 978-1-907-58611-5)
Major excavations at the hospital and priory
of St Mary Spital recorded over 10,500 skeletons. Close dating has
allowed a unique insight into the lives of Londoners from the 12th
to early 16th centuries.
Mark Downing, 2013, Military Effigies of
England & Wales, Volume 5: Northamptonshire-Shropshire (Monumental
Books: Shrewsbury. 165pp; 263 b/w illus; ISBN 978-0-9537065-5-6;
pbk; £20 + £4 p&p). Available from the author at 9 Kestrel Drive,
Sundorne Grove, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 4TT.
The latest volume in
Mark Downing’s national survey of military effigies to 1500.
T
Dyson, M Samuel, A Steele & S M
Wright, 2011, The Cluniac Priory and
Abbey of St Saviour Bermondsey, Surrey: excavations 1984-95, MOLA
Monogr 50 (Museum of London)
This excavation recorded 22 inhumations
or graves. The report includes brief sections on burial practice
and location, demography and health. Three copper alloy letters of
Lombardic form are described.
Ian B Fallows, 2012, ‘The Rev
William Lee (c.1550-1617) Vicar of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire’,
Procs Cambridge Antiquarian Soc, 101, 173-8
An examination of the
three-plate memorial figure brass in Stapleford church to William
Lee, vicar from 1574 to 1617, and founder of the grammar school in
Batley, Yorkshire, his birthplace. The author argues that the
figure is likely to be a re-used plate originally intended for a
Cambridge academic, and that certain anomalies in the Latin
inscription reflect Lee’s efforts to negotiate the religious
turbulence of the Reformation.
Brian & Moira Gittos, 2012,
‘Medieval Ham Hill stone monuments in context’, J British Archaeol
Assoc, 165, 89-121
An overview of medieval church monuments in
south-west England (predominantly Somerset) carved from the
distinctive limestone quarried on Ham Hill, near Yeovil. The corpus
examined includes 62 effigies (with an additional three, at
Haccombe, Devon, noted in a postscript) and 28 cross slabs and
coffin lids. The clients were predominantly local gentry, and the
effigy sample includes a higher proportion of male civilian and
female figures than are typically found elsewhere.
M Henderson, A
Miles & D Walker, 2012, ‘He Being Dead Yet Speaketh’ (Museum of
London Archaeol. Hbk; 370pp; illus; £30. ISBN 978-1-907-58615-6)
Reports on three non-Anglican burial grounds in Tower Hamlets –
Baptist, Catholic and Nonconformist – with over 1,350 burials from
the period 1820-54. It draws upon archaeological, osteological and
documentary evidence.
Robert Kinsey, 2012, ‘Each according to
their degree: the lost brasses of the Thorpes of Northamptonshire’,
Trans Monumental Brass Soc, 18.4, 311-33
An exploration of the
fortunes and self-image of the Thorpe family, a successful medieval
legal dynasty, through their monumental brasses. The brasses
themselves are lost, but two at Peterborough Cathedral are recorded
in Sir William Dugdale’s ‘Book of Monuments’, and a sophisticated
indent survives at Ely Cathedral.
William Lack, H Martin
Stuchfield & Philip Whittemore, 2012,
The Monumental Brasses of
Huntingdonshire (Monumental Brass Society: Stratford St Mary.
xxii+217pp; 161 b/w illus; ISBN 978-0-9554484-3-0; pbk; £35 inc.
p&p)
The latest survey volume in the comprehensive MBS County
Series.
Polly Low, Graham Oliver, & P J
Rhodes (eds), 2012,
Cultures of Commemoration: war memorials, ancient and modern, Procs
of the British Academy 160 (Oxford Univ Pr: Oxford. 200 pp; 26 b/w
illus; ISBN 978-0-19-726466-9; hbk; £65)
A collection of essays on
changing concepts of the war memorial. Contents include Avner
Ben-Amos on the neo-classical Pantheon and Arc de Triomphe; Graham
Oliver on classical traditions and commemorative practices in the
19th and 20th centuries; Stefan Goebel on medievalism and classicism
in British and German 20th-century war memorials; and Lawrence A
Tritle on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Other contributions deal
with the ancient world.
Aleksandra McClain, 2012, ‘Theory,
disciplinary perspectives and the archaeology of later medieval
England’, Medieval Archaeol, 56, 131-70
An essay urging closer
engagement by late-medieval archaeologists with social theory,
supported and illustrated by a case study of cross-slab grave
monuments (based on a corpus of 700 examples in the North Riding of
Yorkshire). Argues that a social archaeology of commemoration should
consider ‘the myriad ways in which people used, perceived, and
engaged with funerary sculpture: as reified memory; as landmarks in
the landscape or focal points in the church or churchyard; as
motivators for prayer; as symbols or embodiments of the deceased; as
family legacies; as political statements; as proclamations of
status; and as cultural signifiers’.
David Meara, 2012, ‘The brass
to the Revd Montague Henry Noel, d.1929, St Barnabas, Oxford’, Trans
Monumental Brass Soc, 18.4, 363-9
An account of the negotiations
surrounding the commissioning and execution of the brass to the
first vicar of the Anglo-Catholic church of St Barnabas, designed by
Cecil Hare and installed in 1931.
Edward Morris & Emma Roberts,
2012, Public Sculpture of Cheshire and Merseyside (excluding
Liverpool), Public Sculpture of Britain 15 (Liverpool Univ Pr:
Liverpool. xxiv+308pp; 227 b/w illus; ISBN 978-1-84631-492-6; hbk;
£45)
Although this survey is predominantly concerned with secular
public sculpture, the introduction includes several pages of
discussion of church monuments, cemeteries and war memorials; while
the catalogue features a number of post-medieval interior and
exterior monuments, including work by Nollekens, Chantrey, and
William Stanton, and the dramatic Port Sunlight war memorial by Sir
William Goscombe John.
Edward Parry, 2011, ‘Monumental history:
funerary monuments and public memory’, Archaeologia Cambrensis,
160,
219-34
A consideration of six monuments in Wales and the Borders as
documents of the religious and constitutional upheavals of the 17th
and early 18th centuries. The six are those to William Lucy (d.
1677), Bishop of St David’s, at Christ College, Brecon; Sir John
Powell (d. 1696) at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire; Elizabeth (d. 1731)
and Mary (d. 1739), wives of Sir John Pryce, at Newtown,
Montgomeryshire; Col. John Birch (d. 1691) at Weobley, Herefs.; Sir
Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford (d. 1724) at Brampton Bryan, Herefs.;
and Theophilus Salwey (d. 1760) at Ludlow.
H Playfair, 2012,
Jewels of Somerset: stained glass in parish churches from 1830
(Beaufort Pr. 84pp; 80 colour illus; £12.50 plus £5 p&p from Hugh
Playfair, Blackford House, Blackford, Yeovil BA22 7EE – cheques
‘Friends of Somerset Churches and Chapels’)
Describes the role of
stained glass windows and their development since 1830, with notes
on artists and workshops.
Keith Randon, 2012, ‘Gaddesby church and
the Cheney monument’, Leicestershire Historian, 22-27
This sculpture
of a soldier on a dying horse, sculpted by Joseph Gott, commemorates
Edward Cheney’s actions at Waterloo. Originally erected in Gaddesby
Hall, it was moved to the church in 1898. The history of the
monument is poorly known.
Ioanna Rapti, 2011-12, ‘Note sur une
pierre tumulaire découverte à Tarse: l’épitaphe arménienne de sire
Philippe, mort en 1351’, Cahiers Archeologiques, 54, 89-121
A report
on an incised marble tomb slab found in 2009 in Tarsus, Cilicia (now
Turkey), on the site of the Great Mosque (erected 1579). It depicts
a military figure and bears an Armenian inscription in commemoration
of a ‘lord Philip’ who died in 1351. It incorporates Latin gothic
stylistic features, and Philip’s name is rendered in a French form,
but he has eluded identification.
Nicholas Riall, 2012, ‘Defining
the early sixteenth-century Renaissance experience: the tomb of
Richard and Elizabeth Norton at East Tisted, Hampshire’, Hampshire
Studies, 67.2, 347-65
An examination of the tomb of Richard Norton
(d. 1537), sheriff of Hampshire, and his wife Elizabeth, executed,
probably in the late 1520s or early 1530s, in an ostentatious
Italianate all’antica style. Along with other local monuments, it is
attributed to Thomas Bertie, the Bishop of Winchester’s master
mason.
J M Robinson, 2011, James Wyatt: architect to George III
(Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale Univ Pr: New
Haven. Hbk; 370pp; illus; £50. ISBN 978-0-300-17690-2)
This is an
attractively produced and well illustrated volume. A chapter on
mausoleums and memorials includes the Pelham mausoleum at Brocklesby
(Lincs), the Darnley mausoleum at Cobham (Kent) and the Dartrey
mausoleum (Co Monaghan). Some of Wyatt’s sketches are reproduced
alongside modern colour photography.
Xavier F Salomon, 2012,
‘Gasparo Marcaccioni (1620-74), his portrait by Carlo Maratti and
his chapel’, Burlington Mag, 54 (no 1314: Sept 2012), 629-36
Includes discussion of the monument to Gasparo Marcaccioni,
bookkeeper and principal minister to Cardinal Antonio Barbarini, in
the church of S Maria del Sufraggio, Rome. Previously unpublished
financial records identify the marble portrait bust and other
sculptures as the work of Paolo Naldini, executed between 1674 and
1677.
Ann Saunders, 2012, St Paul’s Cathedral: 1400 years at the
heart of London (Scala: London. 144pp; 116 colour illus; ISBN
978-1-85759-802-5; hbk; £25)
A new account of St Paul’s by a highly
regarded authority. Includes discussion of some of the monuments
introduced to Wren’s building from 1791 onwards, illustrated with
evocative photographs.
K D M Snell, 2012, ‘Churchyard closures,
rural cemeteries and the village community in Leicestershire and
Rutland, 1800-2010’, J Ecclesiastical Hist, 63.4, 721-57
A
pioneering analysis of patterns in churchyard extensions, closures
and new cemetery provision in two Midland counties, encompassing a
total of 556 rural and urban burial sites, and focusing on changes
in the 1850s, 1880-1900, and from the 1960s to 2010.
Sally
Strachey, 2012, ‘The best get better: two stone monuments at St
Mary’s Church, Elmley Castle, Worcestershire’, Mausolus (newsletter
of the Mausolea & Monuments Trust) (Winter 2012), 2-3
On recent
conservation work to monuments to Sir William Savage (d. 1616) and
Thomas Coventry, first Earl of Coventry (d.1699).